Th 4/11 “The
Subject and Power”; recommended “Useless to Revolt?” and Interview – “
Topics: Power, strategy, and subjectivization
1. What relation do the subject and freedom have to power? How do they constitute and disrupt power and form the objective of its exercise?
2. What is distinctive about pastoral power and what form does it take in the modern state? How does it pertain to the form of struggle predominant in the present day?
3. How does Foucault try to remain sensitive to the specificity and diversity of power relation, in contrast to the traditional approach to power?